
Running two internal servers simultaneously can pose a lot of issues (ports … etc). The gitlab server uses nginx as its default server, while our projects use apache server to serve contents. Digital Ocean has an already packaged droplet (omnibus-gitlab-droplet) that sets up the gitlab server for you without stress but we also want to use the same droplet to host some of our projects. My company decided to move our projects and repositories to an online VPS, we chose DigitalOcean Ubuntu Linux droplets which is easy to set up and also Gitlab offline server to store our project files.

To use the online repository, no setup is required, just register an account and start creating projects. GitLab, like GitHub is an online repository that allows developers to create, store and manage their projects with the ability to roll back to an earlier state if an error is encountered.


This article first appeared on the Chigisoft blog.
